Empowering Indian youth through various skill development courses
Skill India Mission aims to empower the Indian youth through skill development. Under Skill India Mission, the Government through 21 central ministries/departments is implementing various schemes and programmes for short term trainings. Under Skill India Mission, Ministry of Education is implementing SamagaraShiksha Scheme with an aim to impart vocational courses to the students of Class 9th to 12th.
The scheme comprises of 55 job roles in 19 sectors, i.e., Agriculture, Apparel Made ups & Home Furnishing, Automotive, Banking Finance and Insurance Services (BFSI), Beauty and Wellness, Construction, Electronics & Hardware, Healthcare, Information Technology / Information Technology Enabled Services (IT/ITeS), Media & Entertainment, Multi Skilling, Physical Education & Sports, Plumber, Power, Retail, Security, Telecom, Tourism & Hospitality, Transportation Logistics & Warehousing.
Till March 2021; 13,50,175 students benefitted under the scheme.
Under SamagraShiksha scheme, provision has been made for basic facilities to students and trainers in the Government schools.
Under SamagraShiksha scheme, basic facilities to the student and trainers are provided, namely; tools & equipment for vocational lab, engaging guest lecturers, resource persons, raw materials, maintenance of tools and equipment, books, software, e- learning material, hands-on skill training/on the job training in industrial set up, office expenses/contingencies (including expenditure on awareness & publicity, guidance and counseling), field visits, etc.
The scheme is reviewed at regular intervals to ensure that adequate facilities and trainers are provided to students.
The information was given by the Union Minister of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, ShriDharmendraPradhan in a written reply in the LokSabha today.
Promotion of skill development of tribal community
As per the National Policy for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, 2015 India has a target to train 402.87 million by 2022. This includes 104.62 million new entrants to existing workforce in the country who need to be skilled to meet industry requirement. In addition 298.25 million of existing workforce need to be reskilled/upskilled.
The Ministry has been implementing PradhanMantriKaushalVikasYojana (PMKVY), Jan ShikshanSansthan(JSS) Scheme and National Apprenticeship Promotion Scheme (NAPS) for providing short term Skill Development training to the youth belonging to all section of the society including tribal community.All of the above Schemes has the mandatory provision of utilization of funds fortribals through Tribal Sub Plan (TSP) component. The details of fund allocation under Tribal Sub Plan in the PMKVY Scheme, JSS scheme and NAPS in FY 2021-22 are given below:
(Rs. In crore)
| S.No. | Scheme | Total Budget Estimates, 2021-22 | Budget Estimates 2021-22 (ST component) |
| 1. | PMKVY | 1438 | 110.50 |
| 2. | JSS | 161 | 12 |
| 3. | NAPS | 120 | 9.29 |
The MSDE through National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) promotes establishment of model and aspirational skill centres known as PradhanMantriKaushal Kendra (PMKK) for imparting skill training in every district throughout the country including the tribal areas. In addition, the Ministry,under the JSS Scheme, 238 Jan ShikshanSansthans are being functional and75 new JSSs has been sanctioned for the current Financial Year (2021-22). In addition to this, under PMKVY Scheme, Training Centres (TCs) have been set up through NSDC. As on 10.07.2021, 2050 TCs have been operational under PMKVY 2.0. Further, there are 14,604 Industrial Training Institutes which provides long term training to all sections of the society including STs, out of which 1508 are in tribal areas.Capacity of a training centre/ institutes in terms of candidates varies from scheme to scheme and State to State.
The details of the centres set up under PMKVY scheme, JSS scheme and NAPSare given below:
| S.No. | Scheme | Implemented through | To be set up by Public/Private/PPP | Financial arrangement |
| 1 | PMKVY | NSDC | Set up by private/public organization | Cost of training and certification borne |
| 2 | JSS | Jan ShikshanSansthan | Non-Government Organization | Cost of training and certification borne |
| 3 | NAPS | Industrial Establishments | Both public and private | Stipends for apprentices |
The following additional benefits are given to candidates to tribal candidates under the different skill development of schemes:
| S.no. | Scheme | Benefits for tribal candidates |
| 1 | JSS | Course fees are waived for the SC, ST, Divyangjan& BPL category beneficiaries |
| 2 | CTS | Benefits are extended as per State/UT policy. |
The information was given by the Union Minister of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, ShriDharmendraPradhan in a written reply in the LokSabha today.
NSDM envisages to train a minimum of 300 million skilled people by the year 2022
Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship has launched the National Skill Development Mission (NSDM) to provide the overall institutional framework to rapidly implement and scale up the skill development efforts across India. NSDM envisages totrain a minimum of 300 million skilled people by the year 2022.
Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship promotes establishment of model and aspirational skill centres known as PradhanMantriKaushal Kendra (PMKK) in every district for imparting skill training throughout the country in Public Private Partnership (PPP) mode.
As on 30.06.2021, 812 PMKKs have been allocated across the country, out of which 721 PMKKs have been established.
Under PradhanMantriKaushalVikasYojana (PMKVY), short term training (STT) is being imparted through empanelled training centres (TCs) including PMKKs. As on 10.07.2021, 3,415 TCs are operational across the country that includes 721 PMKKs. Targets to TCs are being allocated for approved job roles as per extant guidelines of the scheme and training is being imparted in batch size of maximum 30 candidates.
The information was given by the Union Minister of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, ShriDharmendraPradhan in a written reply in the LokSabha today.
